“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.